The Battle of the Trench (Arabic غزوةالخندق) (also Battle of the Ditch, "Battle of the Parties" Battle of Ahzab (Arabicغزوةالاحزاب )) was an attack by the city of Mecca on the city Medina in 627. Although Mecca fielded a larger army it was not successful. Battle of the Trench - Preface to the battle. The Battle of the Trench began when the Jewish tribe Banu Nadir attacked the Muslims in Medina who had expelled the tribe for their alleged treachery towards them. The ...

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The Battle of the Trench began when the Jewish tribe Banu Nadir attacked the Muslims in Medina who had expelled the tribe for their alleged treachery towards them. The Banu Nadir were initially allies of the Madinan Muslims, but they secretly intrigued with the Makkan polytheists and some of the Madinans. They attempted to take the life of Muhammad when he visited them. Muhammad asked them to leave the strategic position which they occupied, approximately 3 miles south of Madina. They refused to leave and the Muslims attacked. Seeing ...

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Trench warfare is a form of war in which both opposing armies have static lines of fortifications dug into the ground, facing each other. Trench warfare arose when there was a revolution in firepower without similar advances in mobility and communications. Periods of trench warfare occurred during the American Civil War (1861-5) and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and reached peak brutality and bloodshed on the Western Front in the First World War. Trench warfare - Background. Fortification is almost a ...

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Trench warfare - Strategy. Trench warfare was a fundamental game of strategy. The fundamental strategy of trench warfare was to defend your own position strongly while trying to achieve a breakthrough into the enemy's rear. The effect was to end up in attrition; the process of progressively grinding down the opposition's resources until, ultimately, they are no longer able to wage war. This did not prevent the ambitious commander from pursuing the strategy of annihilation—the ideal of an offensive battle which ...

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Trench warfare - Strategy. The fundamental strategy of trench warfare was to defend your own position strongly while trying to achieve a breakthrough into the enemy's rear. The effect was to end up in attrition; the process of progressively grinding down the opposition's resources until, ultimately, they are no longer able to wage war. This did not prevent the ambitious commander from pursuing the strategy of annihilation—the ideal of an offensive battle which produces victory in one decisive engagement. The Co ...

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627 - Events. April 11: Paulinus, a Roman missionary, baptizes King Edwin of Deira December 12: Battle of Nineveh: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius defeats the Persians ending the Roman-Persian Wars. Battle of the Trench: An Early Muslim battle. 627 - Deaths. November 10: Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury Category: 627 ...

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The first development which was critical for trench warfare was the introduction of mass-conscripted armies during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Prior to this, armies still consisted of small numbers of troops which were unable to defend a large territory for very long—battles were either brief or degenerated into siege warfare. Large armies made it much more difficult for one army to outflank another, but it was still possible with cavalry and infantry charges for one army to break another by a direct assault. An example ...

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World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from 1914 to 1919, with the fighting lasting until 1918. The label World War I or First World War did not come into general use until after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and until then it was known as the Great War or the World War. The war was fought by the Allied Powers on one side, and the Central Powers on the other. No ...

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A battle of attrition is a military engagement in which neither side has any tactical advantage, so that the only result of the fighting is the loss of men and materiel on both sides. Battles of attrition can be very lengthy, and test both sides' ability and willingness to make good their losses. Notable battles of attrition include: Trench warfare in the American Civil War, notably the Siege of Petersburg. Trench warfare in World War I, including the Battle of the Somme (1916), the Battle of Verdun and ma ...

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The Battle of Lone Pine, which took place during the Gallipoli campaign, was the only successful Australian attack against the Turkish trenches within the original perimeter of the Anzac battlefield, and yet it was merely a diversion to draw attention from the main assaults of August 6 against the Sari Bair peaks of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971. Battle of Lone Pine - Prelude. The Lone Pine battlefield, named for a solitary Turkish Pine that stood there at the start of the fighting, was situated about the centre ...

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The Battle of Amiens, which began on 8 August 1918, was the opening phase of the Allied offensive, later known as the Hundred Days Offensive, that led ultimately to the end of World War I. The Australian and Canadian divisions that spearheaded the attack managed to advance over eight miles on the first day, one of the greatest advances of the war. The battle marked the end of trench warfare on the Western Front and the return to the mobile warfare that would prevail until the armistice was signed on 11 November. Battle o ...

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The Battle of the Nek was a small World War I battle fought as part of the Gallipoli campaign. "The Nek" was a narrow stretch of ridge in the Anzac battlefield on the Gallipoli peninsula. The name derives from the Afrikaans word for a "mountain pass" but the terrain itself was a perfect bottleneck and easy to defend, as had been proven during a Turkish attack in May. It connected the Anzac trenches on the ridge known as "Russell's Top" to the knoll called "Baby 700" on which the Turkish defenders were entrenched. In total ...

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Trench warfare - Infantry weapons. The common infantry soldier had four weapons at his disposal in the trenches: the rifle, bayonet, shotgun and grenade. The standard British rifle was the .303-in. (7.7mm) Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (SMLE), originally developed as a cavalry carbine, with a maximum range (for sniping) of 1400yd (1280m), though its effective range was more like 200yd (180m). British infantry training emphasised rapid rifle fire rather than accuracy. Early in the war, the British were able to ...

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Abdullah ibn Umar (flourished 7th century) was the son of the second Caliph Umar ibn Khattab. Ibn Umar was known for being more hardline and less facilitative opinions. Abdullah ibn Umar - Muhammad. Umar was not allowed to join Muhammad in battle until he was fifteen. The first battle he fought in was the Battle of the Trench. He was 19 at the end of Muhammad's life. Abdullah ibn Umar - Ali. When Ali became Caliph, Ibn Umar refused to give him aligance. Instead he ...

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The Battle of Vimy Ridge was one of the opening battles in a larger British campaign of the First World War known as the Battle of Arras. It is also considered a seminal event in Canadian history for the primary role Canadian forces played in the attack. Vimy, located in northern France, was one of the most heavily defended points on the entire Western Front and was thought to be an impregnable fortress. The German army had fortified it with tunnels, three rows of trenches behind barbed wire, massive artillery, and numerous mac ...

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The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. The battle was the British component of the combined Anglo-French offensive known as the Second Battle of Artois. General Douglas Haig, then commander of the British First Army, directed the battle however his plans were limited by the shortage of artillery shells which meant the preliminary bombardment, essential for success in the emerging trench warfare, was weak. The British also released 140 tons of chlorine gas with mixed success—in ...

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Creeping Barrage is a military tactic in which massed artillery support an infantry advance by firing continuously at positions just in front of the advancing troops. The shellfire keeps enemy troops in their bunkers and trenches, and creates a pall of smoke and dirt in the air in order to obscure the advance. The technique was first used by Bulgarians during the Siege of Adrianople in March 1913. The technique was forgotten, but then re-discovered during World War I and first deployed by Sir Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne for the Battle of the Somme in August 1916. Eventually the technique beco ...

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Beaumont-Hamel is a commune of the Somme département, in northern France. Population: 225. Postal code: 80 300 Area: 8.31 km² Altitude: 75 m Beaumont-Hamel - History. On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, 800 soldiers of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment rose from the British trenches and went into battle at Beaumont-Hamel, nine kilometres north of Albert in France. The next day, only 68 men answered the regimental role call. 255 ...

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Trench warfare has been very infrequent since the end of World War I. When two large armoured armies meet, the result has generally been mobile warfare of the type which developed in World War II. The most cited example of trench warfare after World War I was the Iran-Iraq War, in which both armies had a large number of infantry with modern small arms, but very little armour, aircraft or training in combined weapons. The result was very similar ...

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